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Aboriginal Achievement: A School Counsellor’s Role
(2013-08)As a focus for in-depth study, the area of Aboriginal achievement is an obvious choice. I see low levels of Aboriginal achievement in my school and district (School District 84, Vancouver Island West) as well as the presence ... -
Aboriginal Women's Encounters with Mainstream Mental Health Services: The Critical Incidents that Facilitate Healing
(2013)This study examines Aboriginal women’s encounters with mainstream mental health services. Using the Critical Incidents Technique, the researcher developed a list of categories to describe factors that help or hinder healing ... -
The Abused Child- The Bully or The Victim? Anger, Aggression and Bullying Behaviour in The School Setting - How Can The School Help?
(2015-07)Bullying in schools has become an epidemic problem in today’s society. More and more children are being told they are “bullies” and are victimizing their peers. As a school system, one must wonder why have more and more ... -
Academic Writing: A Self-Assessment Strategy for Cadence, Fluency, and Vocabulary Choice
(CreateSpace, 2011)Entering graduate students typically demonstrate a wide range of academic writing competencies. The purpose of the instructional practice described in this chapter is to close the writing literacy gaps and raise the standard ... -
Across the Prison Divide: the Role of Therapeutic Alliance in Treatment of Mandated Substance Abuse Clients
(2008)The therapeutic alliance has been studied over many decades and suggested to be an important element in successful treatment outcomes. A number of studies have discussed the relationship between alliance and substance abuse ... -
Active Online Learning: Implementing the Case Study/Personal Portfolio Method
(CreateSpace, 2011)Students in online classrooms must be prepared with the skills necessary to be successful in the twenty-first century. Pink (2005) stressed that educators must provide learning that not only engages the left-brain thinkers ... -
Adapting the Islands of Safety Model for LGBTQ2S+ Communities
(2016-10-24)The purpose of this study was to gain initial feedback from lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, two-spirit and other gender and sexual minority (LGBTQ2S+) counsellors, social workers and anti-violence workers on the ... -
Addiction Counsellors: Ethical Issues
(2008)This thesis is a proposal to investigate ethical issues and dilemmas that may arise for addiction counsellors who work within 12-step informed facilities. This proposal was based upon Scott’s (2000) research entitled, ... -
Addressing Internalized Oppression in Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy: Towards a Liberating and Inclusive Clinical Practice
(2016)This document consists of five chapters that attempt to integrate liberating and anti-oppressive concepts and Cognitive-Behavioural principles in psychotherapy. Its purpose is to develop guidelines for cognitive behavioural ... -
Adolescent Bereavement: A Nuanced Landscape of Loss
(2015-04)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the topic of adolescent bereavement within the scope of three essays which together comprise a manuscript thesis. Drawing upon both structuralist and postmodern theoretical frameworks, ... -
Adolescent Bullying in Elementary Schools: An In-depth Review of an Effective Prevention and Intervention Technique to Reduce Bullying
(2012)This critical literature review summarizes the most current data available on bulling amongst adolescents in elementary schools. In the existing literature, bullying is being defined as the negative and often aggressive ... -
The Adolescent from Poland: an Autoethnographic Journey of an Immigrant Experience in Canada
(2009)This thesis explores the experience of a non-English speaking, immigrant adolescent from Poland to Canada. This is a self-study, I the subject and researcher at once. I have chronicled and traced the experience of my own ... -
Adult Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: Braving the Shame
(2012-12)Shame has been found to be an effect of child sexual abuse (CSA) in male and female survivors. This thesis explores the lived shame experiences of six adult males who were sexually abused as children by adult perpetrators. ... -
Adult Women's Experiences of Health Food Industry Advertising
(2011)This study investigated the relationship between adult women's perception of healthy eating and their use of health food industry advertising as a guide to managing their food consumption. The general hypothesis was that ... -
Advances In Exemplary Instruction
(CreateSpace, 2015)This book is the fourth in the Proven Practices in Higher Education series dedicated to sharing a collection of practices from a group of faculty members at a single university. City University of Seattle (CityU) is a ... -
Adventure Therapy: A Program Design Based on Common Factors and Related Change Constructs
(2012)Ever since the days of Hahn (founder of Outward Bound) and Lord Baden Powell (founder of the Boy Scouts movement), concerned adults have recognized large therapeutic effects of the wilderness and outdoor activities on ... -
An Alternative Education Program for At-Risk Students Implemented in a Rural Alberta High School
(2016-03)For over 50 years, schools across North America have implemented a variety of alternative education programs to help address the needs of students who have struggled in traditional school settings. Students who do not ... -
An Analysis of Health Related Information in Canadian Running Magazines: What Motivation and Threshold of Activity is Endorsed?
(2009)Regular physical activity is thought to be associated with better physical and mental health. The Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP), in partnership with Health Canada released Canada’s physical activity guide ... -
An Analysis of Successful Induction Programs for Early Career Teachers in Rural Central Washington State
(2016-06-25)This qualitative applied research study addressed the challenges public school principals in rural school communities face with regard to retention of provisional teachers. The two research questions that guided this study ... -
Andragogy and the Adult Learner
(CreateSpace, 2016)Pedagogy and andragogy are two theories of learning. Pedagogy requires the students to be dependent upon the teacher for knowledge, and any experiences students may have yield little value. On the other hand, andragogy is ...
